James Wan

"My dreams and daydreams were set to his scores," tweeted James Wan, after Monday’s small plane accident involving Oscar-winning composer James Horner, 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif. The "Furious 7" director was not alone. Any one of the millions of moviegoers who ever hummed "My Heart Will Go On," Horner’s omnipresent love theme from "Titanic," knew the feeling. In 2009, Horner said to an LA Times writer: "When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody loses, when someone disappears — at all times I'm keeping track, constantly, of what the heart is supposed to be feeling." The...

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